News came out recently that Kojima Productions has registered two trademarks in January of this year: one for Strand Game and one for Social Strand System.

To celebrate the five year anniversary of the PlayStation 4 in Japan, Famitsu published a list of the 50 best selling physical games on the system by February 3rd.

After their impressive Solid Snake and Psycho Mantis statues, high end collectible manufactures First 4 Figures has just started accepting reservations for their new product in the Metal Gear Solid line: a SD Solid Snake.

Recordings for the Japanese version of Death Stranding continued at Kojima Productions, with actors Akio Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda and Akihiko Ishizumi.

First 4 Figures is opening pre-orders for their next Metal Gear Solid statue later this week, on Friday February 22nd. Today, they released a teaser video for the figure: an 8″ PVC statue of Solid Snake.

Voice recording for the Japanese dub of Death Stranding is still ongoing, and Kojima held another session with actors Akio Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda (Sam) and Akihiko Ishizumi (Guillermo del Toro’s character).

Solid Snake is getting his own amiibo as part of the Super Smash Bros Ultimate character line-up.

Metal Gear and Ludens figures were shown off during Wonder Festival 2019 in the Makuhari Messe outside Tokyo.

The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is coming to PlayStation Now this month, as part of the February lineup.

In an exclusive interview with website Metro GameCentral, Norman Reedus spoke a bit about Death Stranding.

PlayStation has announced the line-up of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers for the month of February, and one of the games is Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for PlayStation 3.

As work on Death Stranding continues, Kojima Productions has been recording Japanese voices this week with actors Kenjiro Tsuda (Sam), Akio Otsuka and Kikuko Inoue.

Kojima Productions and Guerrilla Games have been communicating daily, with van der Leeuw describing their cooperation as ‘intense’.

Aki Saito, who joined Kojima Productions recently as Head of Marketing & Communications, has taken to Twitter to share some of his impressions working at the studio and on the game they’re currently creating, Death Stranding.

The PlayStation 4 version of the game can be found near the bottom of the list, at number 88, with a total of 52.131 copies sold.